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According to this stat, the Buccaneers are going to miss the playoffs

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It’s not how you start but how you finish in the NFL. After all, the New England Patriots started the 2014 season 2-2 after suffering an embarrassing 41-14 defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night.

People wrote off the Pats and said Tom Brady was finished, but all New England did after that was go 10-2 the rest of the way and win Super Bowl XLIX over the Seattle Seahawks. Oh, did I mention that they’ve won two more Super Bowls since then?

While the Tampa Bay Buccaneers may not be the New England Patriots, they still have plenty of talent on both sides of the ball to be a competitive team, although Sunday’s loss to the San Francisco 49ers raises serious questions about Jameis Winston’s future.

But even with 15 games left to play this season, this stat from the NFL’s research department already seems to spell doom for the Buccaneers’ 2019 season.

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The tweet says that teams starting 0-1 have made the postseason 25.5 percent (114 of 447) of the time since 1990.

OK, so maybe it is an overreaction to say that every team who lost yesterday is going to miss the playoffs, but nothing the Bucs did on offense inspires confidence. Tampa Bay has a quick turnaround before facing the Carolina Panthers on Thursday. If they go down 0-2 before they even reach their tough road stretch, you can pretty much start thinking about next season.

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